by Gerard Manning | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
Google Trends allows you to discover advanced features with Google Insights for Search. Google Trends an interesting tool. What is interesting about it is that you can see if a search term has lost popularity over the past years and you can see when the peak search...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
Google webmaster guidelines covering a range of topics from general to some more advance topics. These guidelines are to help make sure that your site will stay listed in Google. Not following them will result in your site not getting listed in the search engine...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
Google bomb and Googlewashing refers to creating a large numbers of links, causing a webpage to have a high ranking for searches on unrelated or off topic keyword phrases. These are often for comical or satirical purposes. In contrast, with search engine optimization,...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
Google local search for Canada is a great way for the smaller businesses get noticed on the internet, and help people find the products and/or services that much easier. I’ve added Bing and Yahoo Canada Search info as well. Bing local search is very reliable as...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
Running a website without analytics is like driving a car with no dashboard—you have no idea how fast you’re going, how much fuel you have left, or if something is wrong under the hood. Web analytics help you understand what’s happening on your site, so you can make...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
This article was originally written back in 2005. I was helping a friend do some research on TrustRank and TrustBox to find some more information on the two topics. Here I will touch on the two. First, the term trustrank first appeared in a research paper...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 29, 2012 | Blog
For those in the world of SEO and PPC, Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool provides a good insight into how popular search phrases are, their popularity, the most popular month including seasonal trends with Google. Before Google’s Adwords, one of the main...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog
Google Sitemaps is a program to help improve and increase the coverage of your website with Google. There are software and generator programs to help you make them, but its not that hard to create it yourself. If you have a very large website, then you will want to...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog
Original Posting Date: December 13th, 2005 This is an older article I wrote back in 2005. Keeping it posted for reference. Everyday and throughout the day I often check My Yahoo! page for the RSS feeds that I watch on a daily basis. Today, from SEOroundtable.com,...
by Gerard Manning | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog
When I originally wrote this article, Google’s local results were mainly based on IP location, but since then their local Google Canadian searches have improved. Google makes it easier for Canadian companies that have a .com domain and not hosted in Canada with...
